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What are Persons or Selves? | Michael James

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Free will is a perennial conundrum. The ‘Big Questions in Free Will’ project brought together scientists, philosophers and theologians in a novel...

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Big Questions in Free Will Project (Part II)

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Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in answering this question? That’s the goal of the Big...

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Big Questions in Free Will Documentary

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How we think about free will affects how we live our lives and structure our societies. In Part II of our following the multi-year ‘Big Questions in Free Will’ project,...

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Big Questions in Free Will II?

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What is free will? Do we have free will? The ‘Big Questions in Free Will’ project tackles these issues in a multi-year study.  In Part I, scientists and philosophers...

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Big Questions in Free Will I?

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Free will is a perennial conundrum. The ‘Big Questions in Free Will’ project brought together scientists, philosophers and theologians in a novel...

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Big Questions in Free Will Project (Part I)

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What are Persons or Selves? | Michael James

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Assume that free will is real, not an illusion, and that the only reality is physical. How then could the will possibly be free? By what mechanism could human choice...

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How Can Free Will Work?

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Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues...

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Philosophy of Free Will

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Why is free will such a complex puzzle, enough to drive philosophers slightly mad? Free will probes consciousness, examines what it means to pick, choose, select, decide. But...

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Free Will: Where’s the Problem?

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Why is free will one of the hardest problems in philosophy? What are the core issues of free will and why do they seem to defy resolution? Most philosophers are pretty sure...

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Free Will: Essence and Nature

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Why Obsess about Free Will? [Consciousness] Free will probes consciousness, examines what it means to pick, choose, select, decide. But some say that ‘free will’...

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Why Obsess about Free Will?

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What are Persons or Selves? | Michael James

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Can free will reveal the nature of mental states? Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. That’s the reason why free will can be a tool to explore...

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How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness

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Why might free will be a key to understanding consciousness? What is it about the problems of free will such that addressing these problems can elucidate the deep structure...

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Free Will: Key to Consciousness?

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Free will has traditionally been a problem in philosophy. Recently, the battleground of free will has shifted to neuroscience. Now some claim that to solve the problem of...

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Physics of Free Will

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Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that...

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Does Brain Science Eliminate Free Will?

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Free will seems the simplest of notions. Why then is free will so vexing to philosophers? Here’s why: no one knows how free will works! Science, seemingly, permits no...

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Can Brains have Free Will?

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‘Experimental philosophy’ is a new field of study, in which philosophical problems are subjected to surveys of common people expressing their common views. What...

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What is Experimental Philosophy?

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What do common people think about free will, and why should it matter what they think anyway? Do common people think they have free will? Can they be persuaded otherwise? How...

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Free Will Folk Beliefs

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Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Data from the brain, by itself, does not favor free will. But is there more to me than my brain? How to judge among the vast and...

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Does Brain Science Abolish Free Will?

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Philosophers and brain scientists argue that our ‘will’ is less ‘free’ than we think. How do arguments about free will impact morality and civil society, including...

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Does Moral Responsibility Require Free Will?

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Personal agency is a state, the capacity of individuals to affect things. Free will is a mental faculty of various strengths. What’s the relationship between free will...

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Free Will and Personal Agency

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What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among options or choices usually based on certain criteria. It would...

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Free Will and Decision Making

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Is free will required for moral responsibility? If a person with a brain tumor breaks the law, should that person be judged by lower standards? It’s a slippery slope,...

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Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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What are Persons or Selves? | Michael James

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Since God (supposedly) knows everything and can never be wrong, including about future events, how could those future events not come to pass? If we cannot do other than what...

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Does God’s Knowledge Ruin Free Will?

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Assuming that whatever God knows cannot be wrong, if God knows today that I will do ‘X’ tomorrow or ‘Y’ in 10 years, how can I not do otherwise—and...

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Does God’s Knowledge Eliminate Free Will?

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How can God’s perfect knowledge not eliminate free will? Since God-to-be-God can never be wrong and knows everything, including propositions about future events, how...

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Does God’s Knowledge Quash Free Will?

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For God to be God, God must be infallible and know the future perfectly, including all my actions from birth to death. For my will to be free, my actions must not be...

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If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?

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